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Wyvern is an 18 m open sea sailing ship operated by Stavanger Maritime Museum.
The ship was designed by Colin Archer on a commission from British-born Frederick Croft and was launched on 10 August 1897.
She sank in the Baltic Sea on 11 July 2013 during the 2013 Tall Ships’ Race. The crew was rescued, but a member of a rescue team died during the accident.
She was raised from the seabed in August 2013 and returned to Stavanger.
In December 2013, her repairs started at Hvide Sande Shipyard.

LOA – 26,9 m

Beam – 6,5 m

Disp. – 110 t

Sail area – 165,8 m²

SSB Nordwind was laid down as an armed fishing vessel in 1945 and completed as a Bermuda rigged ketch by the British Occupying Forces in 1948. She served as a coastal patrol vessel, before being transferred to sail training activities for the West German Bundesmarine, a role she has fulfilled from 1956 to 2006. The Deutsches Marinemuseum in Wilhelmshaven acquired her in 2008, and since then she has provided daysails for up to 35 guests, as well as taking up to 10 guests on longer trips. She has also participated in various events such as Kieler Woche and Jade Cup.

Arriving at Hvide Sande Shipyard in late 2021, Nordwind has been the subject of considerable renovation. Her stem has been replaced and large amounts of her oak planking renewed as well as surface treatment of her steel frames, beam shelves deck beams and stringers. She has been fitted with a new watertight bulkhead, an electric bow thruster, hydraulic steering equipment and new generator unit. Furthermore, her weather deck (previously a patchwork of larch, oak, plywood, fiberglass and teak) has been replaced with one of traditionally laid pine. She has also been sheathed in copper plating below the waterline to minimize marine growth.
(Text – Tom Salter)

The 3 masted schooner was built in 1942, based on drawings from the 19th century as a freight vessel. Main dimensions of the vessel are 43 x 7,2 meters.
In the years 2003-2009, we did several restauration jobs on the ship, including straightening of the keel, new stem, new main engine and replacement of the wooden deck.
At the time, the vessel was owned by the Danish brewery, Carlsberg, who used it for representation and press conferences. In 2004 they even used it for PR at the European football championship in Portugal.
In 2010 it was sold and renamed to “Zar”. 

The ship was built in 1895, where it was used as a lighthouse vessel for the first 24 years at Helsingør. After that, it served at Gedser Rev until 1972.
Since then, it has been a museum vessel in different harbors.
Since 2018 it has been back in Helsingør, where it started its service.
In 2003, it went through a major restauration at Hvide Sande Shipyard.

The schooner Fulton was built in Marstal in 1915 and originally sailed with saltfish in most of Europe.
Later, it has a history as a school ship and is operated today under the same spirit as a “charter schooner”.

The National Museum owns the schooner, and it is today operated by the Fulton Foundation. First in the 1990s they were looking for a shipyard that had the professional competence and experience in building and maintaining wooden vessels. Attention fell on Hvide Sande Shipyard. Here there was a real so-called cutter factory that build ships that can withstand both being used for commercial purposes and in the event of bad weather on the North Sea.

So, Fulton arrived at Hvide Sande Shipyard for the first time 30 years ago. For 3 decades, the schooner has called at Hvide Sande for carrying out keel hauling and life-extending maintenance.

Restoration tasks such as keel straightening, replacement of frames and cladding, help to give Hvide Sande Shipyard a detailed knowledge of the ship’s structure, shape, special boat techniques and – for its time and type – typical solutions. All maintenance tasks around the schooner Fulton have been carried out, carefully planned and without the schooner having had a break in operation.

Fionia (as the ship is named now) was built in 1904.
It was used as a cargo ship until 1960, before becoming a sea angling ship in Elsinore.
From 2004 it worked as a daytrip vessel, until the destillery in Nyborg bought it in 2012. 
At our shipyard, we have had the pleasure of taking care of the maintenance since 2005.
Many jobs have been done in order to keep the ship in good shape.

The German schooner, built in Hamburg in 1883, underwent major restoration in the winter of 2018/2019, and had major damage repaired in the winter of 2019/2020.

Elbe no. 5, which originally served as a pilot boat at the entrance to Hamburg and was since owned by various private individuals around the world, has returned to the port of Hamburg.

The new circle of owners in Hamburg has ordered the restoration of the schooner at Hvide Sande Shipyard, where it has had more than 100 frames replaced, each designed according to their own template, as well as over 1250 metres of cladding. The schooner has also received a completely new keel, and all work has been done in oak specifically purchased and stored for the task.

In the winter of 2019/2020, Elbe no. 5 had major damage repaired after a collision and is now back in Hamburg where the owners are finalising equipment of the schooner.

M314 Alta is one of Norway’s largest wooden ships and was built in the USA in 1953. Alta, in recent years operated as both a museum ship and used in minor expeditions from Oslo, has now been returned to the Royal Norwegian Navy. Today, Alta is located in Oslo and, in the future, the Navy will only operate the wooden ship, which is worthy of preservation, as a museum ship.

Hvide Sande Shipyard, Steel & Service has completed Alta’s most recent restoration years ago. Among other things, the restoration involved the replacement of the pine cladding, the pine lining and parts of the oak ice protection, as well as the replacement of frames and other parts of the hull construction.

The work carried out was done with great enthusiasm, and Hvide Sande Shipyard, Steel & Service is pleased that the ship will continue to be operated and thus maintained.